What industry members are involved in Media Sandbox?

A panel of leading industry partners will actively support Media Sandbox 2010. The advisers will attend and contribute to salon and showcase events; and take a mentoring role in the development of ideas, talent and potential routes to market.

The panel includes:

Nicole Yershon, Ogilvy
Nicole started her career in advertising 23 years ago. But since Ogilvy London's Chairman 8 years ago gave her the brief to 'bring Ogilvy into the 21st century' her focus has shifted from analogue to digital, implementing Finance, Workflow and Digital Asset Management systems. She built up Ogilvy's digital hub called Domain, covering all broadcast and video editing, on and off line.

Today she champions new media across all platforms (iptv, social networking, mobile, search, gaming, digital out of home etc), bringing innovative technologies and solution to the attention of colleagues and clients across all disciplines which resulted in campaigns such as flooding Second Life, life web casting with pop group 'Girls Aloud', digital escalator panels for IBM to name but a few.

Recently Nicole and her team have launched the Ogilvy Digital Innovations Lab.
www.ogilvy.co.uk/ogilvy-interactive/

Dan'l Hewitt, Digital Media Advisor
Dan'l was head of digital content at Bebo.com and currently hold a non-executive position with SouthWestScreen. In all he has 10 years experience in all aspects of high-growth technology and media businesses, from start-ups and incubators to public companies across Europe and the US. Areas of expertise include social networking and online communities, 360 marketing strategies, content acquisition, branded entertainment, online ad sales, strategic and commercial deal making, and e-commerce.

Dan'l currently advises across a number of digital content creation and publishing platforms as well as social marketing agency Punktilio

Dan Efergan, Aardman Animations
Dan Efergan is Creative Director of Online at Aardman Animations - where he gets to spend a lot of time doing fun things like making games, creating online communities, and exhibition interfaces.

Previously he kept himself entertained as MD of Subsub Skills and Production, creative and technical lead on Light Up Bristol, a lecturer of programming and cofounder of the Submerge New Media Festival, which gave him a warm and fuzzy feeling by bringing together creative people and seeing what happened.

He’s particularly interested in creative programming, the future of human/digital interaction and it's effect on society. He likes philosophy, and if he wasn't so busy would love to work out the meaning of life.
http://www.aardman.com

Tim Scott, DCMS
Tim Scott is the Senior Policy Adviser for Video Games and Film at the Department for Culture Media and Sport. Unfortunately this doesn't mean spending all day watching films and playing games but is all about working closely with industry to better understand how Government can support the sector.

Tim's career began in politics as a researcher for the Shadow Cabinet, moving to the Training and Development Agency for Schools before joining the DCMS in 2007.
www.culture.gov.uk/

Gavin Henderson, RDF
Gavin Henderson is Head of Programmes for Presentable TV in Cardiff, part of the RDF Media Group. RDF Television produces some of the country’s best known series including The Secret Millionaire, Shipwrecked, Don’t Forget the Lyrics, Dickinson’s Real Deal and Scrapheap Challenge. In 2007, RDF Digital was set up to help "future proof" the company against changes in the way content is funded and distributed and to realise revenues from RDF content on the web.

Before joining Presentable, Gavin was Head of Programmes at Endemol West. His production credits include Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush, The Big Breakfast, Artschool, Big Brother, The Games and the multi-platform BBC project ‘Upstaged’.
www.presentable.co.uk/

Richard Hull, HP Labs
Richard Hull is a Director of Calvium Ltd, a new start-up aiming to radically simplify the creation of sensor-based applications for mobile phones. Between 1985 and November 2009, Richard was a senior researcher at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol working, managing and publishing in a broad range of research areas including handwriting interfaces, situated computing, and appliance communications. For the last eight years, he has pursued his main research interest in the use of pervasive  computing in experiential mobile applications. He was the technical lead in the Mobile Bristol collaborative project and HPLab's subsequent work on mscape, a freely available framework for creating, sharing and experiencing location-based media.

Richard gained a BSc in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Surrey in 1979 and a DPhil in Computer Science from the University of Sussex in 1984.
www.calvium.com, www.mscapers.com

James Touzel, Partner, TLT LLP
James is head of the Technology & Media Group at UK law firm TLT.  He has been with TLT for over 14 years, throughout that time working with established and early-stage technology and media organisations.

He is known for his work with digital media and mobile telecoms businesses, covering social networking, location based services and new media collaborations, where he advises on the contractual, intellectual property and privacy issues. He also deals with technology development and licensing arrangements, IT procurements and managed service solutions.

James is actively involved in the development of early-stage media businesses and the related support networks. He is a trustee of Watershed Arts Trust Limited and non-executive chair of iShed CIC, who have a mission to pioneer innovation and new technologies in the creative industries. He is also a member of Science City Bristol.
www.tltsolicitors.com/sectors/technology-and-media

Mark Watts-Jones, Orange UK
Mark is Head of Product Marketing at Orange, UK.  Mark has worked for Orange in a variety of marketing roles, most recently leading Orange UK's partnerships with the world’s major social networks Facebook, MySpace and Bebo. Mark also led the development of the social networking element of Dolphin, Orange UK's innovative Pay As You Go tariff with free mobile social networking included. Dolphin is Orange UK's major consumer proposition for 2008 and a UK first. Mark is currently leading the marketing and development of Orange UK's other community, user generated, social media and web 2.0 products, partnerships and strategy.
http://www.orange.co.uk/